Samaṇabrāhmaṇasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Nidānavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 16 · Section 41

[41] Bhikkhus, those ascetics or brahmins who understand these things, who understand the origin of these things, who understand the cessation of these things, who understand the way of practice leading to the cessation of these things — what things do they understand? Of what things do they understand the origin? Of what things do they understand the cessation? Of what things do they understand the way of practice leading to cessation? They understand aging and death (jarāmaraṇa); they understand the origin of aging and death; they understand the cessation of aging and death; they understand the way of practice leading to the cessation of aging and death. They understand birth (jāti) … existence (bhava) … clinging (upādāna) … craving (taṇhā) … feeling (vedanā) … contact (phassa) … the six sense bases (saḷāyatana) … name-and-form (nāmarūpa) … consciousness (viññāṇa) … they understand volitional formations (saṅkhārā); they understand the origin of volitional formations; they understand the cessation of volitional formations; they understand the way of practice leading to the cessation of volitional formations. These are the things they understand; it is of these things that they understand the origin; it is of these things that they understand the cessation; it is of these things that they understand the way of practice leading to cessation. Those ascetics or brahmins, bhikkhus, are acknowledged as ascetics among ascetics and acknowledged as brahmins among brahmins; and those venerable ones, having realized it for themselves with direct knowledge (abhiññā), dwell in this very life having attained the goal of asceticism and the goal of brahminhood. The fourth [sutta].

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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